Newsletter October 8

The leaves are red and yellow
It’s time to lay by food
I don’t need to catch a fellow
As life is good and I’m no foal

Hello!
Happy Harvest! It’s time to reflect on summer. It was fits and starts. Hope 2019 will be better. As a farmer there is always next year.

Harvesting things is slowing down. Things are not ripening like when it’s hot and dry.

I hosted a company lunch Thursday, Marc at the Noble Lion did the catering. Fun to dress the Loft for fall, what a gift I have to do this.

My auction was great, glad it’s over. Some things went well, some things not so well, but guess what? It’s all gone and that was my mission.

The pop corn wagon was hard to see go, but I can’t find a spot to sell pop corn and I always had to have help, someone to move it.

The Pumpkins, Broom Corn, Colored Corn, Gourds, and Pampas Grass are ready for people to buy and decorate their front door.

We harvested Concord Grapes on Monday. Excellent harvest and huge crop. They are made into juice and now jam. Smells so great when they are cooking down.

Have to tell you about the gourd harvest. It was excellent. We used a new patch of land with bad soil, they love bad soil. We picked 400 to 500 gourds, fun!

It’s time to dump your flower pots. Don’t use that soil again, it’s out of energy.

The Cannas can be dug and roots dried, then wrap in newspaper and store in cool place.

Your potatoes, onions, shallots have been dug. Store in a dark cool place.

Remove old plants from your garden and put in trash. Don’t turn them back into the soil. Spade or till soil. This is good to help the soil breathe. The snow, rain and ice is good for it.

Plant garlic in late October. Cover with hay, about 6 inches. Remove early spring (March) as garlic wakes up early. The stem will be crooked if you don’t remove the hay.

I’ve said before Fall is not my favorite time of the year but the colors are very pretty.
I’ll write again,
Donna

I’m Still Harvesting Organic
Green Peppers
Banana Peppers
Poblano
Jalapeno
Marcia
Leaf Lettuce
Cabbage

For Your Fall Dress
Large pumpkins
Mini orange pumpkins
Pok-E-Mon Pumpkins
Specialty Pumpkins
Gourds – Small, Medium, Large
Broom Corn
Corn Shocks
Pampas Grass

Fill Your Willow Basket

Honeycrisp Apples, Local Minnesota
SweeTango, Local
Chestnut Crab, Local
Winter Squash, Local
Acorn, Buttercup, Butternut
Delicata, Carnival, Spaghetti, Sweet Dumpling
Heirloom Tomato, Local
Slicing Tomatoes, Local
Watermelon, Local
Chub Cucumbers, Local
Slicing Cucumbers, Local
Green Beans, Local
Fingerling Potatoes, Local
Baby Red Potatoes, Local